Left Alone Quotes

• I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Hilarious, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

  Justin Timberlake

  Hilarious, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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• As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

  Sienna Miller

  Being Alone, Feeling Alone, All Alone

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• I want to be left alone.

  Greta Garbo

  Lonely, Fear, Loneliness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

  Greta Garbo

  Being Alone, Want, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

  Olivia Wilde

  Single, Meaningful, Thinking

  "Olivia Wilde's New Fairy Tale". Interview With Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. July 13, 2011.

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• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. Without inner peace it is impossible to achieve world peace, external peace. Weapons themselves do not act. They have not come out of the blue. Man has made them. But even given those weapons, those terrible weapons, they cannot act by themselves. As long as they are left alone in storage they cannot do any harm. A human being must use them. Someone must push the button. Satan, the evil powers, cannot push that button. Human beings must do it.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Men, Blue

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• I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like to stay out all night, and when they're home they like to be left alone and sleep. In other words, every quality that women hate in a man, they love in a cat.

  Jay Leno

  Hate, Sleep, Cat

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• When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.

  CeCe Winans

  Song, Light, Giving

  CeCe Winans (2000). “On a Positive Note”, Beyond Words/Atria Books

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• I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Thinking, Government, Long

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• True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

  Sophia Loren

  Laughter, Children, Soul

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• Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.

  Scott Stapp

  People, Band, Care

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• As we talked, I had the sense of uncovering something precious and long-buried, fully formed. Our conversation was a process of removing layers, some of them easily dusted away. Other layers, requiring chisels or axes, were left alone for now. We revealed as much as we dared about what had happened during the years that separated us. But it wasn't what I had expected, being with Hardy again. There was something in me that remained stubbornly locked away, as if I were afraid to let out the emotion I had harbored for so long.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Axes, Years, Long

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.558, St. Martin's Press

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• I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

  Thomas Paine

  Giving, Age, World

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• I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Editing, Editors, Use

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Book, Enjoy, Left

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• You didn’t really hold back on Braga so Pickering could kill him, did you?” Royce asked after the two were left alone in the hallway. “Of course not. I held off because it’s death for a commoner to kill a noble.” “That’s what I thought.” Royce sounded relieved. “For a minute, I wondered if you’d gone from jumping on the good-deed wagon to leading the whole wagon train.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Jumping, Two, Gone

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “The Crown Conspiracy”, p.266, Ridan Publishing

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• I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You're treading on very thin ice.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Thinking, Ice

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• Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage.

  Vladimir Putin

  Children, Growing Up, Men

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

  George Harrison

  Zoos, Men, Space

  "I, Me, Mine". Book by George Harrison, 1979.

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• The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

  Ted Dekker

  Dark, Looks, World

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• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  Wayne Brady

  Left

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• In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fear And Loathing, World, Finding Peace

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.489, Pan Macmillan

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• The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Want, Peasants, Left

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